john lois editor (40 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Edition Not Stated. Soft Cover. Very Good/Issued Without a Jacket. Edition Not Stated. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. 1st printing (1991). Trade-sized. Cover art by Comstock, Inc. Includes "Introduction"; "What Is Science Fiction" by Damon Knight; "Ripples in the Dirac Sea" by Geoffrey A. Landis; "The Avalanche: A View on the SF and Fantasy Novels of 1989" by Ian Watson; "Snake Charm": the Healer's War, Chapter 16" & "Some Reflections on "The Healer's War" by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough; "Solace" by Gardner Dozois; "The Mountains of Mourning" by Lois McMaster Bujold; "For I Have Touched the Sky" by Mike Resnick; "Vulgar Art" by Orson Scott Card; "The Ommatidium Miniatures" by Michael Bishop; "The Great Nebula Steep" by Paul Di Filippo; "At the Rialto" by Connie Willis; "The Exile's Paradigm" by Ricard Grant; "In Blue" by John Crowley; "Year of the Bat: Science Fiction Movies of 1989" by Bill Warren; "Appendixes: About the Nebula Award; Past Nebula Award Winners". Minor wear and tanning. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. First Edition. [Foreword by F. Paul Wilson] collects 17 tales. Near Fine copy some spine end bumping in Fine Dust Wrapper. clph.

Soft Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Winter 1991. 128 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Hardcover. Condizione: New.

Soft Cover. Condizione: Good. Albert Esparza (Art Director) (illustratore). 126 pp. 1974, Vol. 22, No. 10 issue only! Solidly bound copy with moderate use. Minimal, light, slight or very mild browning, tanning, foxing or discoloration on page edges, not affecting text. Over-sized and/or over weight book; may require additional postage. Please note that large and/or heavy items may incur extra shipping charge for both domestic and/or international shipments.

Soft cover. F. Cincinnati, OH: F&W Publications, Inc. (1990). Paperbound, 8 vo., large stiff carboard wraps, printed on recycled paper. Fine condition. A nice clean copy. The literary magazine which published some of the finest American short stories during the 1990s. 0.0.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Nicholas Jainschigg; Bob Eggleton; Peter Botsis; John Rheaume; John Lakey; Laura Lakey; Jon Fraze; Gary Freeman; Doug Chaffee; Jeff Busch; Janny Wurts; Boris Vallejo; Michael Whelan; Carol Heyer; (illustratore). First Edition. 96 pp. Light wear with some faint discolouration on the contents page. Cover art by Nicholas Jainschigg; interiors by: Bob Eggleton; Peter Botsis; John Rheaume; John Lakey; Laura Lakey; Jon Fraze; Gary Freeman; Doug Chaffee; Jeff Busch; Janny Wurts; Boris Vallejo; Michael Whelan; and Carol Heyer. This issue contains: Word Salad - a novelette by Phillip C. Jennings; Touches by Gregory Benford; Eighty-eight Sins by Norman Partridge; Hardware Scenario G-49 by James Alan Gardner; The Devil His Due by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff; The Long Fall by Ben Bova; Aristodemos by Lois Tilton; Gunfight at Bertha's Saloon by Thomas R. McDonough; Pay Any Price, Bear Any Burden - a novelette by Ted Reynolds and William F. Wu; Catastrophes of the Past - article - by Stephen L. Gillet; and Reflections - essay - by Robert Silverberg; along with the usual features. Size: 4to. Book.

pamphlet. Condizione: Good. 2nd. Some light wear. Good copy.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 68 pages. John Gregory "Henry Williamson And The BBC" / Brian Fullagar "The Old Pond: An Introduction" / Henry Williamson " 'The Pond': Original Manuscript " / Lois Lamplugh "The Georgeham Village Hall Sign Incident" / Peter Lewis "A Winter's Tale" (SL#49).

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 60 pages. Illustrated. Brian Fullagar "Henry Williamson And The Battle Of The Somme" / John gregory "Sombre Summer Days On The Somme" / Olive Smith "The Constancy Of Hetty" / Lois Lampugh "The Shallowfield Scene" / Richard Williamson "The (Silver) Eagle Has Landed"Fred Shepherd "From The Back Of A Picture" (SL#49).

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Cincinnati, OH: F&W Publications, Inc. (1990). Paperbound, 8 vo., large stiff carboard wraps, printed on recycled paper. Fine condition. A nice clean copy. The literary magazine which published some of the finest American short stories during the 1990s. The editor, Lois Rosenthal, had an uncanny eye for publishing writers at the start of their careers. This issue contains the first published stories of both Amanda Davis and Hannah Tinti. 0.0.

Soft Cover. Condizione: Like New. 229 pp. Vol. 50, No. 4, 2006/50th Anniversary Volume issue only! Print ISSN: 0091-8369. Electronic ISSN: 1540-3602. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. Small indent on fore-edge.

trade paperback. Condizione: good; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED4to; 76 pages; good trade paperback; few slight nicks spine area; tips bumped; light tanning to edges; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.

trade paperback. Condizione: good; used. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDED4to; 76 pages; good trade paperback; crease back cover; slight pen mark front cover by previous owner; spine heal slight chip; tips bumped; clean pages; prompt shipping with tracking.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 96 pages. 2 James Laughlin Poems Robert MacAulay 9 Vanessa Jackson Drawings 14 Ann Gray Poems 15 Martin Bax Le Magasin des Gants David Remfry 23 Rosemary Norman Poems 24 Adrian Mitchell Poems Michael Foreman 27 Judith Kazantzis The Glass Avenue Laura Knight 33 Andzej Klimowksi The Story So Far 38 Josephine Wilson Poems 41 Lomas / Eisa Sternberg Money Doesn't Stink Michael Foreman 47 E. A. Markham Madeleine 54 Elizabeth Smith The Tzar, Lenin & Picasso 55 Lois Beeson Poems 59 Jim Burns Reviews 65 David Grubb Poems 68 Sue Flynn Disabled Vows Ian Pollock Drawing 71 Liz Dearden Cat Woman Poems 73 Linda Sutton Etchings 78 Anthony Edkins Poems 80 Lomas / Belbin Reviews 87 Ambit Nights Out 88 Felicity Napier Poems 90 John Cotton Poems 92 Richard Dyer Poems / Pictures.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 154 pages. 9.00x6.50x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Wraps. Condizione: Very good. Ursula Balent (illustrations), Jennifer Hamson (Il (illustratore). Revised Edition. vi, 62 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is a type of fusion energy research that attempts to initiate nuclear fusion reactions by heating and compressing a fuel target, typically in the form of a pellet that most often contains a mixture of deuterium and tritium. To compress and heat the fuel, energy is delivered to the outer layer of the target using high-energy beams of laser light, electrons or ions. The heated outer layer explodes outward, producing a reaction force against the remainder of the target, accelerating it inwards, compressing the target. This process is designed to create shock waves that travel inward through the target. A sufficiently powerful set of shock waves can compress and heat the fuel at the center so much that fusion reactions occur. The energy released by these reactions will then heat the surrounding fuel, and if the heating is strong enough this could also begin to undergo fusion. The aim of ICF is to produce a condition known as ignition, where this heating process causes a chain reaction that burns a significant portion of the fuel. In practice, only a small proportion of this fuel will undergo fusion, but if all this fuel were consumed it would release the energy equivalent to burning a barrel of oil. ICF is one of two major branches of fusion energy research, the other being magnetic confinement fusion. The largest operational ICF experiment is the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in the US. As of October 7, 2013, this facility is understood to have achieved for the first time a fuel capsule that gave off more energy than was applied to it. The Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) is a scientific research facility which is part of the University of Rochester's south campus, located in Brighton, New York. The lab was established in 1970 and its operations since then have been funded jointly; mainly by the United States Department of Energy, the University of Rochester and the New York State government. The Laser Lab was commissioned to serve as a center for investigations of high-energy physics, specifically those involving the interaction of extremely intense laser radiation with matter. Many types of scientific experiments are performed at the facility with a strong emphasis on inertial confinement, direct drive, laser-induced fusion using OMEGA, currently the world's highest-energy ultraviolet laser. The lab shares its building with the Center for Optoelectronics and Imaging and the Center for Optics Manufacturing. A new addition, the Robert L. Sproull Center for Ultra High Intensity Laser Research, was opened in 2005 and houses the OMEGA EP laser, which was completed in May 2008. The laboratory is unique in conducting big science on a university campus. More than 180 Ph.D.s have been awarded for research done at the LLE. During summer months the lab sponsors a program for high school students which involves local-area high school juniors in the research being done at the laboratory. Most of the projects are done on current research that is led by senior scientists at the lab. The LLE was founded on the University of Rochester's campus in 1970, by Dr. Moshe Lubin. Working with outside companies such as Kodak the team built Delta, a four beam laser system in 1972. Construction started on the current LLE site in 1976.[4] The facility opened in 1978 a six beam laser systems and a 24 beam system follows two years later. In 1985, Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou invent a method to amplify lasers pulses by "chirping". This method change a single wavelength of laser light into a spectrum of wavelengths. The system amplifies the laser at each wavelength and then reconstitutes the beam into one color. Chirp pulsed amplification became instrumental in building the National Ignition Facility and the Omega EP system. In 1995, the omega laser was increased to 60 beams system and in 2008 the Omega extended performance system was opened. The OMEGA laser at the LLE.

Wraps. Condizione: Very good. Ursula Balent (illustrations) and Eugene Kowaluk ( (illustratore). vi, 62 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) is a type of fusion energy research that attempts to initiate nuclear fusion reactions by heating and compressing a fuel target, typically in the form of a pellet that most often contains a mixture of deuterium and tritium. Energy is delivered to the outer layer of the target using high-energy beams of laser light, electrons or ions. The heated outer layer explodes outward, producing a reaction force against the remainder of the target, accelerating it inwards, compressing the target. This process is designed to create shock waves that travel inward through the target. A sufficiently powerful set of shock waves can compress and heat the fuel at the center so much that fusion reactions occur. The energy released by these reactions will then heat the surrounding fuel, and if the heating is strong enough this could also begin to undergo fusion. ICF is one of two major branches of fusion energy research, the other being magnetic confinement fusion. The Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) is a scientific research facility which is part of the University of Rochester. The lab was established in 1970. The Laser Lab was commissioned to serve as a center for investigations of high-energy physics, specifically those involving the interaction of extremely intense laser radiation with matter. Scientific experiments are performed with a strong emphasis on inertial confinement, direct drive, laser-induced fusion. The laboratory is unique in conducting big science on a university campus. In 1985, Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou invent a method to amplify lasers pulses by "chirping". Chirp pulsed amplification became instrumental in building the National Ignition Facility and the Omega EP system. In 1995, the omega laser was increased to 60 beams system and in 2008 the Omega extended performance system was opened. The OMEGA laser at the LLE is one of the most powerful and highest energy lasers in the world. It is a 60-beam ultraviolet frequency-tripled neodymium glass laser, which is capable of delivering 30 kilojoules at up to 60 terawatts onto a target less than 1 millimeter in diameter.

Newspaper. 28p. folded tabloid newspaper, news, reports, opinion, reviews, photos, ads, very good on newsprint. Much material on AIDS and Marin Community news.

paperback. Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 3rd revised expanded edition. 414 pages. 9.50x6.25x1.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near Fine. Octavo. 395 pp. The Third Series from The Arden Shakespeare. Green cloth with silver titles. Sharp edges and board corners. Bright and clean throughout with no markings or annotations. Square and tight binding. An attractive copy.

Hardback. Condizione: Good condition. This collection of 250 letters, written by Joseph Furphy over the last 30 years of his life, who once described himself as 'half-bushman and half-bookworm'. Through these letters the reader can trace the life of the bullocky-cum-foundry worker who, against the odds, wrote a national classic. They reveal this unusual man in the most important relationships of his life: with his mother who outlived him; with Kate Baker, the schoolteacher twenty years his junior, who loved him and believed in his genius; with William Cathels, the fellow-blacksmith and autodidact to whose learning he always deferred; with A. G. Stephens, the imperious critic, who recognized the worth of Such is Life and supervised its publication; and, most interesting of all, with Miles Franklin, the young author of My Brilliant Career towards whom he was deeply attracted. Readers familiar with Such is Life will find that their understanding and enjoyment of that idiosyncratic book will be extended and deepened by a reading of these letters. Readers unfamiliar with Such is Life will find these letters a fascinating introduction to a remarkable man and his writing. {"length"=>["21.5"], "width"=>["13.6"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}.

HARDCOVER. Condizione: VG. Small binder defect on fly page. Binding solid, pages crisp and clean, no markings found. Green leatherette covers with gold gilt lettering bright and shiny with light scuffs and dents. Extremities lightly bumped with minimal tip wear.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 3rd new revised edition. 415 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 277 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

[978-0-7636-6464-0] 2012. (Trade paperback) Very good plus. 309pp. Photographs, black and white and color illustrations, bibliography, index. "Why did the creators of Miss Nelson, the Pigeon, and a very hungry caterpillar choose the picture book, of all art forms, to be their life's work and passion? And why do children love and need these books so much? In this collection of interviews, renowned children's literature authority Leonard S. Marcus explores these questions". Contributors include Mitsumasa Amo, Quentin Blake, Ashley Bryan, John Burningham, Eric Carle, Lois Ehlert, Kevin Henkes, Yumi Heo, Tana Hoban, Jerry Pinkney, William Steig, Rosemary Wells, Mo Willems, Vera B. Williams. Foreword by David Wiesner. (Book Collecting, Children's Books, Illustrated Books, Illustration, Interviews, Picture Books).

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!